WJEC A2 German GN4 9th June 2014

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you liked it? i found it horrible lol all of the questions I understood but had no idea how to answer some of them :frown:

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what essay topic did you do ? i did der vorleser which i think went ok compared to the first half :biggrin:

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I did Goodbye Lenin, and chose the question on symbolism. The film is full of symbols, so I had plenty to write about :smile:

The only downside of the paper was part of the text: at first, I didn't even know what 'sklaverei' meant until it became obvious it was slavery XD but after that, I think I did ok :smile:

what did you think of the text?

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my teacher said prepare for goodbye lenin too just incase i dont understand the question.. but i looked at the questions in the test and im sooo glad i didnt bother, i was really bad at the whole symbol thing essays when we did it earlier in the year :biggrin:

but yeah i just guessed sklaverei. i thought the text was kinda pointless.. the first few paragraphs were about the cook and then there was a page and a half repeating themselves about the exploitation thing where there was like no new info. did you think that too, or did i just not understand it well enough ? :biggrin:

and also do you remember what you put for the why is it hard to take diplomats to court or something? i had no idea so i put they live in groups haha

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I thought that the first two paragraphs of the text were a little unclear, but I understood the rest. And yeah I see what you mean about the repetition. For the question about the diplomats, I wrote that they are somehow 'above' the law, because they have a lot of power (made the last bit of that sentence up) but in the last paragraph I'm sure it said something along those lines :smile:

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shewaves

Original post by katrina1

I thought that the first two paragraphs of the text were a little unclear, but I understood the rest. And yeah I see what you mean about the repetition. For the question about the diplomats, I wrote that they are somehow 'above' the law, because they have a lot of power (made the last bit of that sentence up) but in the last paragraph I'm sure it said something along those lines :smile:

I put something about they are rarely at home and it is hard to pinpoint where they commit the acts. I thought overall the exam was OK, I did the Goodbye Lenin question on symbols too. I can't believe both of the questions were on symbols in the film! They didn't even have an obscure one about the characters, there wasn't much choice. I thought the listening was horrible, I didn't really get why people went into the phone booths so I just has a guess, I know it was about racism but GAHH. The text was quite nice I thought though.

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OP

Original post by shewaves

I put something about they are rarely at home and it is hard to pinpoint where they commit the acts. I thought overall the exam was OK, I did the Goodbye Lenin question on symbols too. I can't believe both of the questions were on symbols in the film! They didn't even have an obscure one about the characters, there wasn't much choice. I thought the listening was horrible, I didn't really get why people went into the phone booths so I just has a guess, I know it was about racism but GAHH. The text was quite nice I thought though.

how did you think you did in the essay? And same, I thought some of the listening was really garbled, meaning that I had to listen to some parts of it at least 3 times before I understood what was actually being said

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Original post by katrina1

I thought that the first two paragraphs of the text were a little unclear, but I understood the rest. And yeah I see what you mean about the repetition. For the question about the diplomats, I wrote that they are somehow 'above' the law, because they have a lot of power (made the last bit of that sentence up) but in the last paragraph I'm sure it said something along those lines :smile:

I put roughly the same thing. I said they're granted immunity from the law.. Which I thought was a bit far-fetched but I'm glad you've said something similar!
I thought it was over all really good compared to past papers though. Although I thought one of the listening questions was a little difficult to answer. I even thought the translation was easier compared to past papers! So overall positive!

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colourpurple

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Original post by RCous

I put roughly the same thing. I said they're granted immunity from the law.. Which I thought was a bit far-fetched but I'm glad you've said something similar!
I thought it was over all really good compared to past papers though. Although I thought one of the listening questions was a little difficult to answer. I even thought the translation was easier compared to past papers! So overall positive!

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It's not far fetched, the text said "geniessen" and "Immunität" so they enjoy immunity (from the law) is probably right!

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Original post by colourpurple

It's not far fetched, the text said "geniessen" and "Immunität" so they enjoy immunity (from the law) is probably right!

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Yea I originally put they enjoy immunity but I just thought it didn't sound right in English and they usually only like you to answer in good English so fingers crossed!

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damn i put they enjoy immunity first, but that meant nothing to me so i assumed it was wrong

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colourpurple

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Original post by RCous

Yea I originally put they enjoy immunity but I just thought it didn't sound right in English and they usually only like you to answer in good English so fingers crossed!

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I know it doesn't :frown:

But when you say immunity it does refer to the law, which I didn't actually explicitly write so I hope it's still correct..

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Original post by colourpurple

I know it doesn't :frown:

But when you say immunity it does refer to the law, which I didn't actually explicitly write so I hope it's still correct..

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well I don't remember it explicitly saying from the law in the text, so they should allow just immunity?

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OP

Original post by RCous

I put roughly the same thing. I said they're granted immunity from the law.. Which I thought was a bit far-fetched but I'm glad you've said something similar!
I thought it was over all really good compared to past papers though. Although I thought one of the listening questions was a little difficult to answer. I even thought the translation was easier compared to past papers! So overall positive!

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which essay did you do?

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Original post by katrina1

which essay did you do?

I did the der Vorleser one about how it not only affected Hanna but Michael as well.
What did you do?

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Original post by RCous

I did the der Vorleser one about how it not only affected Hanna but Michael as well.
What did you do?

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I did the question about the use of symbols in Goodbye Lenin. I thought it was a relatively easy one :smile:

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